· Private foundation
Braren Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DSF Diocesan Service Fun | $600 |
| Magnificat House | $500 |
| EWTN | $500 |
| Coming Home Network | $300 |
| Star of Hope | $200 |
| St Ignatius | $200 |
| Created Equal | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 15% of Braren Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CJCASA JUAN DIEGO4× · 2020–2023 · $3k · revenue +34%
- MHMagnificat Houses Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +199%
- EWETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC5× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- SOSending Out Servantsone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -56%
- SISt Ignatius Of Loyolaone grant, 2020 · $2k
- SStone grant, 2021 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…
To raise donations to (i) provide a daily meal in a place of education for children in the world's poorest communities; (ii) occasionally provide relief for those suffering, in any part of the world, as a result of humanitarian crises…
The dynamic catholic mission is to re-energize the catholic church in america by developing world-class resources that inspire people to rediscover the genius of catholicism.
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…
To demonstrate christian compassion to poverty-bound haitian children and their families, providing opportunities for these children to become leaders in their homes, churches and communities.
Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.
Christian missions and ministries oversea countries; in Cambodia and Mali, church planting, evangelism, medical mission, schools (K - 12), helping the poor and the needy, Crusades, mercy missions (distributing rice, medicine, etc),…
To provide support and services to poor, rural villages in asia and africa. the activities are dedicated and focused on improving the current and future standards of living for the children in these areas. specific focus includes…
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
Creating a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world through education, development, and exchange since 1932. as both an accredited academic institution and an international ngo, world learning, inc. offers the best of theory and practice…
Frontline missions actively develops and cultivates dynamic partnerships within the global church to empower and equip leaders to reach their nations for christ. instead of arriving at a community with our preconceived notions, frontline…
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CASA JUAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Sending Out Servants ↗
- Who funds Magnificat Houses Inc ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds REFORM AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE WATER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Braren Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Braren Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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